Little architects tell the city's spaces through their eyes

After the success of Cupola Fantastica, the initiative that invited the youngest children to imagine and recreate the Dome of Florence Cathedral on the occasion of its 600th anniversary (hundreds of children had participated with their entries from Florence, Italy and even abroad), a new challenge is now back, dedicated again to the little ones at home, but also to children “of all ages.” Greetings from. Emmy explores the city, this is the title of the initiative launched by the Florence Architects Foundation. To narrate with photographs and drawings one’s own neighborhood, home surroundings, squares, streets, architecture and landscape around us, to rediscover and describe what is beautiful, the spaces we love or the places we would like to improve and transform.

“In this strange period in which we have more time than usual but little freedom of movement, even if we can only travel in our neighborhood or to places that can be reached by imagination,” explains the Foundation, “we bet that the desire for discovery has not diminished; on the contrary, with this new project we want to stimulate the creativity of the youngest, and not only, and give them the opportunity to rediscover the places and architectures that are around us, to tell the world their point of view. We want to give voice to the thoughts and perceptions of children and young people to see through their eyes the space that surrounds us and to understand their point of view and needs, which are the basis of our future.”

Accompanying the creativity will be Emmy, the pencil that symbolizes Fantastic Architectures: she will be the one to be cut out, drawn, colored and reconstructed at will by the participants, and then to transform the chosen place into a setting of which the pencil itself will become an integral part. She will always be, through photographs and drawings, the protagonist of the “fantastic postcards” that will be created. Buildings, monuments, gardens, streets and squares of the city or the place where you live: everyone will be free to choose the place they prefer, in front of which to photograph Emmy. If it is not possible to leave the house, one can take the little pencil around with imagination, making a photomontage or drawing. A sentence will then tell the merits or demerits of that space or architecture.

“One will be able to decide whether to show one’s place of the heart, the spaces we love and would like to be in right now, to make them known to everyone, or conversely a place we don’t like and would like to see changed.” All submissions will be published on the Fantastic Architectures blog, and some prizes are also planned. “The goal, in the end, is to create, with what will come out of this initiative, a great mapping of cities, with a special focus on 20th-century architecture,” they add from the Florence Architects Foundation.

In recent months, Architetture Fantastiche, a project conceived by the Fondazione Architetti Firenze group of the same name, was proclaimed the winner, in the Institution category, of the national edition of the Uia Golden Cubes Award announced by the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservators and promoted by the International Union of Architects (Uia) to promote the culture of architecture in young people.

For all information: www.architetturefantastiche.blogspot.com.

Little architects tell the city's spaces through their eyes

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